"Yam (vegetable) Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus ""Dioscorea"" (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers. Yams are perennial herbaceous vines cultivated for the consumption of their starchy tubers in many temperate and tropical world regions. The tubers themselves are also called ""yams"", having numerous cultivars and related species. In parts of the United States and Canada, ""yam"" is sometimes used to refer to varieties of the unrelated sweet potato (""Ipomoea batatas""). The name, yam, appears to derive from Portuguese ""inhame"" or Canarian (Spain) ""ñame"", which derived from West African languages during trade. The main"
"Désirée potato The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned ""main-crop"" potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962. It has yellow flesh with a distinctive flavour and is a favourite with allotment-holders because of its resistance to drought, and is fairly resistant to disease. It is a versatile, fairly waxy variety which is firm and holds its shape, and is useful for all methods of cooking, from roasting to mashing and salads. Resistances of specific diseases for this variety are as followed, this variety is immune to potato wart and it is resistant to skin spot."
"up to 5. The fruit is a flat pod. The Cherokee had several uses for the plant. They used the root medicinally for toothache. They fed an infusion of the plant to cows as a tonic. The wood was useful for making fences, bows, and blowgun darts, and for building houses. There are at least 5 varieties: Robinia hispida Robinia hispida, known as the bristly locust, rose-acacia, or moss locust, is a shrub in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, and it is present in other areas, including other regions"
"maize, sorghum, cotton and potato. To date there have been no detailed studies of the economic importance of ""D. carolina"". Dissosteira carolina Dissosteira carolina, the Carolina grasshopper, Carolina locust, black-winged grasshooper, road-duster or quaker, a large band winged species of grasshopper which ranges widely in North America inhabiting weedy grasslands. ""Dissosteira carolina"" is one of the largest grasshoppers in North America at 32–58 mm in length and is a conspicuous species because of its size, colorful wings, and because it habitually flies over dirt roads and other bare ground. The spread wings of the males measures 75mm across while that"
"Robinia hispida Robinia hispida, known as the bristly locust, rose-acacia, or moss locust, is a shrub in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, and it is present in other areas, including other regions of North America, as an introduced species. It is grown as an ornamental and can escape cultivation and grow in the wild. This deciduous shrub grows to 3 meters tall, often with glandular, bristly (hispid) stems. The leaves are pinnate with up to 13 leaflets. The pink or purplish pealike flowers are borne in hanging racemes of"
"It has good resistance to PVY, tuber late blight and blackleg, it also has moderate resistance to PVA, PVX and fusarium dry rot. It is found to be moderately susceptible to leaf late blight and leaf roll, also it is susceptible to common scab. Désirée potato The Désirée potato (sometimes rendered Desirée or Desiree) is a red-skinned ""main-crop"" potato originally bred in the Netherlands in 1962. It has yellow flesh with a distinctive flavour and is a favourite with allotment-holders because of its resistance to drought, and is fairly resistant to disease. It is a versatile, fairly waxy variety which"
"Endive Endive () is a leaf vegetable belonging to the genus ""Cichorium"", which includes several similar, bitter, leafed vegetables. Species include ""Cichorium endivia"" (also called endive), ""Cichorium pumilum"" (also called wild endive), and ""Cichorium intybus"" (also called common chicory). Common chicory includes types such as ""radicchio"", ""puntarelle"", and Belgian endive. There is considerable confusion between ""Cichorium endivia"" and ""Cichorium intybus"". There are two main varieties of cultivated ""C. endivia"" endive: ""Cichorium intybus"" endive is popular in Europe, and is also known as leaf chicory. Endive is rich in many vitamins and minerals, especially in folate and vitamins A and K,"
"now common in North America, China, and Australia, where it has become widely naturalized. ""Chicory"" is also the common name in the United States for curly endive (""Cichorium endivia""); these two closely related species are often confused. Common chicory is also known as blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailors, blue weed, bunk, coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailors, succory, wild bachelor's buttons, and wild endive. (Note: ""Cornflower"" is commonly applied to ""Centaurea cyanus"".) Common names for varieties of var. ""foliosum"" include endive, radicchio, radichetta, Belgian endive, French endive, red endive, sugarloaf, and witloof (or witlof). When flowering, chicory has a"
"which eat the bark of even mature specimens, resulting in minor die-back of branches where ring-barking has occurred. Choisya Choisya is a small genus of aromatic evergreen shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as Mexican orange due to the similarity of their flowers with those of the closely related orange, both in shape and scent. They are native to southern North America, from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and south through most of Mexico. In its generic name Humboldt and Bonpland honoured Swiss botanist Jacques Denis Choisy (1799–1859). The species grow to tall. The"
"and is high in fiber. It also contains kaempferol. Endive Endive () is a leaf vegetable belonging to the genus ""Cichorium"", which includes several similar, bitter, leafed vegetables. Species include ""Cichorium endivia"" (also called endive), ""Cichorium pumilum"" (also called wild endive), and ""Cichorium intybus"" (also called common chicory). Common chicory includes types such as ""radicchio"", ""puntarelle"", and Belgian endive. There is considerable confusion between ""Cichorium endivia"" and ""Cichorium intybus"". There are two main varieties of cultivated ""C. endivia"" endive: ""Cichorium intybus"" endive is popular in Europe, and is also known as leaf chicory. Endive is rich in many vitamins and"
"up to 3.75 cm. in width. Because it is in the asteraceae family, it has rays and disc flowers, both of which are yellow. The oligolectic bee, Hemihalictus spp., have been found to be the pollinators for the Carolina desert-chicory. ” Pyrrhopappus carolinianus Pyrrhopappus carolinianus, commonly called Carolina desert-chicory, or Texas dandelion is in the Asteraceae or Compositae family in the genus ""Pyrrhopappus"", native throughout Eastern and South Eastern United States. It is a weedy annual found in mostly open grasslands and wet roadsides. P. carolinianus can bloom from spring to frost with the heads facing the sun throughout the"
"Cruciferous vegetables Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and similar green leaf vegetables. The family takes its alternative name (Cruciferae, New Latin for ""cross-bearing"") from the shape of their flowers, whose four petals resemble a cross. Ten of the most common cruciferous vegetables eaten by people, known colloquially in North America as cole crops and in Britain and Ireland as ""brassicas"", are in a single species (""Brassica oleracea""); they are not distinguished from"
"Chicory Common chicory, ""Cichorium intybus"", is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or roots (var. ""sativum""), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber. Chicory is grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and is"
"toxic to some insects. This variety of potatoes is the one which was involved in the Pusztai affair. In 2014, a team of British scientists published a paper about three-year field trial showing that another genetically modified version of the Désirée cultivar can resist infection after exposure to late blight, one of the most serious diseases of potatoes. They developed this potato for blight resistance by inserting a gene (Rpi-vnt1.1), into the DNA of Désirée potatoes. This gene, which conferred the resistance to blight, was isolated from a wild relative of potatoes, ""Solanum venturii"", which is a native of South"
"no more than three, but sometimes up to eight. Each contains a fly larva which feeds on fungus growing inside the gall, then pupates and emerges as an adult. The galls also contain several species of wasps, which are parasitoids on the fly. Borrichia frutescens Borrichia frutescens is a North American species of flowering plants in the aster family known by the common names sea oxeye, sea oxeye daisy, bushy seaside tansy, and sea-marigold. In Veracruz it is called verdolaga de mar. It is native to the United States and Mexico, where it occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts."
"Tatsoi Tatsoi (""Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa"" or ""Brassica rapa var. rosularis"") is an Asian variety of ""Brassica rapa"" grown for greens. This plant has become popular in North American cuisine as well, and is now grown throughout the world. The name comes from Mandarin (塌棵菜 tā kē cài). It is also called 'Chinese flat cabbage', 'rosette pakchoi' or 'broadbeaked mustard', 'spoon mustard', or 'spinach mustard'. Cantonese transliterations include 'tat soi', 'tat choy'. The plant has dark green spoon-shaped leaves which form a thick rosette. It has a soft creamy texture and has a subtle yet distinctive flavour. It can be"
"greens might be combined with pasta or accompany meat dishes. Chicory may be cultivated for its leaves, usually eaten raw as salad leaves. Cultivated chicory is generally divided into three types, of which there are many varieties: Although leaf chicory is often called ""endive"", true endive (""Cichorium endivia"") is a different species in the genus, distinct from Belgian endive. Around 1970, it was found that the root contains up to 20% inulin, a polysaccharide similar to starch. Inulin is mainly found in the plant family Asteraceae as a storage carbohydrate (for example Jerusalem artichoke, dahlia, yacon, etc.). It is used"
"such vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and similar green leaf vegetables. The family takes its alternative name (Cruciferae, New Latin for ""cross-bearing"") from the shape of their flowers, whose four petals resemble a cross. Ten of the most common cruciferous vegetables eaten by people, known colloquially in North America as cole crops and in Britain and Ireland as ""brassicas"", are in a single species (""Brassica oleracea""); they are not"
"lookout by the wayside). It could open locked doors, according to European folklore. Chicory Common chicory, ""Cichorium intybus"", is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or roots (var. ""sativum""), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber. Chicory is grown as a forage crop for livestock. It"
"and healthy varieties. Rosa 'Charles Austin' 'Charles Austin' (Ausfather) is an apricot rose cultivar bred and introduced by David Austin in England in 1973. The rose was hybridised by crossing the English rose 'Chaucer' (Austin, 1970) with the pink Hybrid Tea 'Aloha' (Boerner 1949) and is named after the breeder's father. It was one of the early English roses. Double, flat or slightly cupped flowers with a strong, fruity fragrance, and an average diameter of 10 cm (4 inches) appear in small cluster of 3 to 5 in flushes throughout the season. Their colour is an apricot blend, with stronger"
"of the stem. It is a parasitic plant which attaches to the roots of various desert shrubs such as wild buckwheats, ragweeds, plucheas, and ""Tiquilia plicata"" and ""T. palmeri"" to obtain nutrients. As a heterotroph, the ""Pholisma sonorae"" plant lacks chlorophyll and is grayish, whitish, or brown in color. It has glandular scale-like leaves along its surface. The plant obtains water not from its host plants, but through stomata in its leaves. The plant blooms in centimeter-wide flowers which are pink to purple in color with white margins. This was an important food item for certain desert-dwelling Native American peoples,"
"greens for cooking. Winter cress contains different glucosinolates, flavonoids and saponins. Barbarea Barbarea (winter cress or yellow rocket) is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in southern Europe and southwest Asia. They are small herbaceous biennial or perennial plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals. They grow quickly into dandelion-like rosettes of edible, cress-like foliage. ""Barbarea verna"", also known as upland cress, early winter cress, American cress, Belle Isle cress and scurvy grass, is"
"to ""Fusarium"" root rot, if they are over-watered. Several hybrids with species in other related genera have been created in cultivation, such as between ""Gasteria"" and ""Aloe"" (""×Gasteraloe""), and between ""Gasteria"" and ""Haworthia"" (""×Gasterhaworthia""). Gasteria Gasteria is a genus of succulent plants, native to South Africa (and the far south-west corner of Namibia). The genus is named for its stomach-shaped flowers (""""gaster"""" is Latin for ""stomach""). Common names include ""ox-tongue"", ""cow-tongue"", ""lawyer's tongue"" and, occasionally, ""mother-in-law's tongue"". Gasterias are recognisable from their thick, hard, succulent ""tongue-shaped"" leaves. Their inflorescence is also unique, with their curved, stomach-shaped flowers, which hang from"
"Cichorium Cichorium is a genus of plants in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory or endive, plus several wild species. Common chicory (""Cichorium intybus"") is a bushy perennial herb with blue or lavender (or, rarely, white or pink) flowers. It grows as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America, where it has become naturalized. It is grown for its leaves, when it is known as leaf chicory, endive, radicchio, Belgian endive, French endive, or witloof. Other varieties are grown for their roots, which"
"Agave deserti Agave deserti (desert agave, mescal, century plant or maguey) is an agave native to desert regions in southern California, Arizona, and Baja California. Its tall yellow flower stalks dot dry rocky slopes and washes throughout the spring. It forms a rosette of fleshy gray-green leaves 20–70 cm long and 4.5–10 cm broad, with sharp spines along the edges and at the tips. It flowers at maturity (20 to 40 years), sending up an inflorescence 2–6 m tall. The panicle bears numerous yellow, funnel-shaped flowers 3–6 cm long. There are two varieties: The desert agave is drought-tolerant but requires"
"Symphyotrichum dumosum Symphyotrichum dumosum, common names rice button aster or bushy aster, is an herbaceous plant in the aster family. It is native to a widespread area across the eastern half of the United States from Texas to Florida to Maine to Wisconsin. It is also native to New Brunswick and Ontario, and is cultivated in other places. ""Symphyotrichum dumosum"" is a perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. Heads are born in paniculiform arrays. Ray flowers are blue, pink, purple or white; disc flowers pale yellow, turning pink with age. This species was long known as ""Aster"
"The Botany of Desire The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan presents case studies that mirror four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer our plants. The tulip, beauty; marijuana, intoxication; the apple, sweetness; and the potato, control. The stories range from the true story of Johnny Appleseed to Pollan's first-hand research with sophisticated marijuana hybrids in Amsterdam to the paradigm-shifting possibilities of genetically engineered potatoes. Pollan also discusses the limitations of monoculture agriculture: specifically, the"
"Drosera aliciae Drosera aliciae, the Alice sundew, is a carnivorous plant in the family Droseraceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa, like ""Drosera capensis"", the cape sundew, and is one of the most common sundews in cultivation. The plant forms small, tight rosettes of wedge-shaped leaves, up to 5 cm in diameter. Under conditions of good lighting, the insect-snagging tentacles will become deeply coloured with anthocyanin pigments, which probably aid in its attraction of insect prey. The plant is relatively easy to grow, and produces attractive scapes of pink flowers, which are held about 30 cm"
"cedar, cutlass, doudouce, egg, Graham, Bombay, ice-cream, Julie, long, pawpaw, Peter, rose, round, spice, starch, Tommy, teen, turpentine, vert, zabrico), breadfruit, sorrel (roselle), passion fruit), watermelons, sapodilla Manilkara zapota , pommerac (Syzygium malaccense), guavas, pommecythère (Spondias dulcis), caimite (star apple), abiu, five fingers (carambola), cherries, zaboca (avocado), popoy (papaya), chenette (Melicoccus bijugatus), pineapples, oranges, Portugal (tangerines of various genetic breeding), plum (Governor, King and common variety), West Indian (Barbadian) cherry (Acerola), bananas (sikyé, silk, Gros Michel, Lacatan), barbadine (granadilla), balatá, soursop, cashews, Tamarind, Ceres (Flacourtia indica), , Cocorite (Attalea maripa), Gru-Gru-beff (Acrocomia aculeata), Fat-Pork (Chrysobalanus icaco), pears. and coconuts (several"
"can weigh 1.0-1.2 grams. Depending upon the location and fertility of the soil, blossoms can last 8–10 weeks. ""C. argentea"" and ""C. cristata"" are common garden ornamental plants. ""Celosia argentea"" var. ""argentea"" or Lagos spinach (a.k.a. quail grass, Soko, Celosia, feather cockscomb) is a broadleaf annual leaf vegetable. It grows widespread across Mexico, where it is known as """"Velvet flower"""", northern South America, tropical Africa, the West Indies, South, East and Southeast Asia where it is grown as a native or naturalized wildflower, and is cultivated as a nutritious leafy green vegetable. It is traditional fare in the countries of"
"Cabbage Cabbage or headed cabbage (comprising several cultivars of ""Brassica oleracea"") is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. It is descended from the wild cabbage, ""B. oleracea"" var. ""oleracea"", and belongs to the ""cole crops"", meaning it is closely related to broccoli and cauliflower (var. ""botrytis""); Brussels sprouts (var. ""gemmifera""); and savoy cabbage (var. ""sabauda""). ""Brassica rapa"" is commonly named Chinese, celery or napa cabbage and has many of the same uses. Cabbage is high in nutritional value. Cabbage heads generally range from , and"
"white or pink, and considered fragrant. Blooms are produced in spring or early summer in dense racemes 5–10 cm long that hang from the branches near the ends. The fruits are brown bean-like pods with bristles like those on the shoots. In New Mexico, Pueblo Native Americans traditionally ate the flowers uncooked. Mule deer, cattle, and goats browse the plant foliage. Squirrels and quail eat the locust's seeds. Robinia neomexicana Robinia neomexicana, the New Mexican, New Mexico, Southwest, Desert, Pink, or rose locust), is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. ""R. neomexicana"""
"(bilberry) beans, cabbage, carrots, cress, lettuce, onions, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips lavender, marigold, marjoram, mugwort, parsley, sage, sorrel, thyme cardamom, coffee, pepper, tea flax, hemp, wine-grapes, hops, madder, woad; ""see also #Fruit and nut trees (above), #Grains (below)"" anemone, asphodel, belladonna, buttercup, camellia, celandine, clematis, cornflower, daffodil, daisy, eglantine, forget-me-not, gladden, hemlock, hyacinth, iris, lily, lobelia, mallow, marigold, mimosa, nasturtium, nenuphar, pansy, pimpernel, poppy, primrose, rockrose, rose, saffron, snapdragon, stonecrop, sunflower, water-lily grass, reeds, rushes, sedge barley, oats, rye, wheat bindweed, boxwood, brambles, broom, butterbur, clover, fireweed, goatleaf, gorse, heather, ivy, nettles, sloe, thistles, thorn-bush, wood-parsley bracken, ferns, moss, seaweed,"